I'll have to find Charlie's pictures and scan them in. She had a rapid progression of the greying gene
She was born chestnut, with a blanket, blaze and four white stockings
By the time she was a yearling, she was almost completely white
I have to find those foal and yearling pictures, but here she is, as she has looked since she was two, having still not greyed to maximum expression as a yearling\\not quite that white as a yearling.
That is a great series @Tazzie Come on grey owners someone else must have some pics....
I wish I had a picture of Gibbs as a baby, I will admit to never having really looked at his papers, but then we had to take them when he got his Coggins test, it was interesting to see him listed as a brown stallion!!!
Just William (aka Bill) age 5, he was black with a white face when born and on the right when he was about 10 or 11 with the person who bought him. He was eventually almost white
I didn't get my boy until he was 3 and already fully grayed out with no trace of his base color. His paperwork says he was a buckskin, but it's also possible that he was a palomino due to how palominos look early in the process.
This is him as a 3 year old (best picture I have, I was poor and didn't have a good camera at the time LOL)
As a 4 year old
Then as a 7 year old, he hadn't faded all that much so far.
And when he decided it was time to fade out, he did it in a hurry.
As an 8 year old
As a 9 year old
As a 10 year old
11 years old
12 years old
Then last year at 13
And this year at 14 he's pretty much completely white except for his yellow fleabites and blood mark on his face
'Jeff' (on the right in the photo) as a foal was very dark bay but by around 16 months old he was grey, according to the people we sold him too he was slightly dappled as he aged but eventually became almost white
I got Macarena when she was three and a half. In summer she was a warm golden dun colour with grey overlay and in winter the base was darker. Then she got some lovely dapples. She is now six and a half and has greyed out a lot this year. I was riding her one day and I suddenly thought 'my horse has gone grey!' lol.
EDIT: the last photo should be first, it was when I first got her in 2013. I uploaded it first but it appears at the end.
So glad I found this thread! I LOVE a dapple grey-it was definitely the color of my childhood dream horse. There are some really gorgeous horses posted here (@tazzie-never saw those fuzzy baby pics of Izzie...adorable!!)
I love Morgans and prefer them as classic bays-but at some point in my life, a dapple grey of some breed is going to slip into my barn
Until then, I will live vicariously through all of you!!
Cool post!! I loved looking at all of the progression! My guilty pleasure are loving the greys. Will never have one because of the cancer risk.. but they are pretty to look at when they are coming from someone else's wallet. We have a baby grey at our barn and when he got here, he was almost solid black still. You could barely tell he was starting to grey.. many people would call him "the black horse" when they referred to him when he first got here and would look at me with blank expressions when I corrected them and called him a grey. Or wouldn't even know what I was talking about when I said he was grey! Lol! I'm way too old for my age..
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